The 18 UCI World Tour teams are automatically entitled and obliged to start the race.

World Tour teams The race was started at 11:30 local time with last year's champion André Greipel defending his title.

[3] A leading group of six, later five and four riders escaped from the peloton during the race, facing partly wet road conditions due to some showers.

The leading group initially consisted of Lukas Pöstlberger (BOA), Matteo Montaguti (Ag2R), Alessandro De Marchi (BMC), Kamil Gradek (VAT), Matej Mohorič (LAM) and Maxat Ayazbayev (AST).

Nacer Bouhanni (COF) was fastest in the final sprint, ahead of Caleb Ewan (OBE), John Degenkolb (TGA) and Giacomo Nizzolo (TFS).